The intrepid individual was Henry Cheswicke Rawlinson, an Englishman, scholar, soldier, diplomat and imperial adventurer, and he was copying the vast lists of inscriptions cut into the cliff face on the orders of King Darius the Great of Persia more than 2,000 years previously.

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